OBJECTIVE While mobile crisis teams have proliferated to address gaps in service for individuals with serious mental illness, research into their effectiveness is limited. This study identifies specific cohorts of individuals served by a single mobile crisis team so that appropriate program evaluation could be designed and conducted for each unique grouping. METHOD This retrospective study an...

This paper describes a method for localizing the members of a mobile robot team, using only the robots themselves as landmarks. We assume that robots are equipped with sensors that allow them to measure the relative pose and identity of nearby robots, as well as sensors that allow them to measure changes in their own pose. Using a combination of maximum likelihood estimation and distributed num...

This paper describes a systematic and multidisciplinary approach to developing evidence-based standards and guidelines of user interface design for mobile survey instruments. The approach includes five major components: project team, systematic literature review, mobile user model, standards development, and guidelines development. A multidisciplinary project team was assembled to ensure adequa...

Mobile robots are integrated into a search and rescue team as tools for searching victims in dangerous areas that is harmful for human, as to provide the perception data for map building, and as to follow the human entity during the mission. The teleoperated control and the autonomous path following is implemented on the robots for the semiautonomous navigation in the simulated firing scenario....

A process of team formation by autonomous agents in a distributed environment is presented. Since the environment is distributed, there are serious problems with communication and consistent decision making inside a team. To deal with these problems, the standard technique of token passing in a computer network is applied. The passing cycle of the token serves as the communication route. It ass...

This paper describes a study of the use of multimedia networked location-aware mobile computers to support team-based survey-oriented fieldwork. Existing systems do not provide fully integrated support for collaborative data capture and review, or access to distributed real time information on survey progress and status, all of which are crucial for the conduct and management of surveys often c...

The design of autonomous mobile robots includes the design of team behaviors. We have extended the Dual Dynamics scheme for behavior design in order to let the designer specify team behavior. This approach comes with a tool suite for team behavior specification, simulation, and monitoring, and is used for the coordination of soccer playing robots.

Many of the most promising applications for mobile robots require very high reliability. The current generation of mobile robots is, for the most part, highly unreliable. The few mobile robots that currently demonstrate high reliability achieve this reliability at a high financial cost. In order for mobile robots to be more widely used, it will be necessary to find ways to provide high mission ...